A celebrated installation by Kentridge inaugurates the reopening of Amalfi's ancient Arsenal

by Redazione , published on 07/08/2020
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The ancient Amalfi Arsenal will see its reopening with William Kentridge's celebrated video installation, More Sweetly Play the Dance.

The reopening and restoration of theancient Amalfi Arsenal will be inaugurated by a great protagonist of contemporary art: William Kentridge (Johannesburg, 1955).

The South African artist will celebrate the memory of that place with the installation More Sweetly Play the Dance, on view to the public from September 3 to December 2, 2020 and curated by Galleria Lia Rumma.

In the Arsenal of Amalfi was held at the end of the 1960s the exhibition event Arte Po vera plus Azioni Povere curated by Germano Celant, thanks to which Italian art entered the international scene with its avant-garde languages, with a movement that is still today a central reference for study and creativity.

Third part of the Amalfi and Beyond project, desired by the Campania Region and implemented by Scabec, after the conference Progettare la Memoria: Strategies of the Digital promoted in collaboration with the University of Salerno and the exhibition I sei anni di Marcello Rumma 1965-1970 inaugurated in 2019 at the Madre Museum in Naples, curated by Gabriele Guercio, with Andrea Viliani, Kentridge’s exhibition marks the reopening of the Amalfi Arsenal, ideally linking to the three exhibitions that Marcello Rumma promoted and organized there between 1966 and 1968.

More Sweetly Play the Dance is avideo installation, originally commissioned in 2015 by EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, in which we witness a ritual and macabre dance: a narrative through images and sounds of themes such as death, illness, and socio-political issues of contemporaneity.

A celebrated installation by Kentridge inaugurates the reopening of Amalfi's ancient Arsenal
A celebrated installation by Kentridge inaugurates the reopening of Amalfi's ancient Arsenal


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